Hollywood Goes to War: How Politics, Profits, and Propaganda Shaped World War II Movies
Editorial Reviews
Walter Goodman, New York Times Book Review
"Beware of censors bearing high ideals. That's the message of Hollywood Goes to War, a careful account of America's flirtation with cultural commissarship during World War II. . . . The descriptions of behind-the-scenes fiddling by bureaucrats (particularly with King Vidor's ambitious flop, 'An American Romance,' which was 'transformed from a paean to rugged individualism into a celebration of management-labor cooperation') are instructive. They expose the political mentality of the time and the mentality of propagandists of all times."
Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World
"Koppes and Black, professor of history and communications respectively, have no evident ideological axes to grind in this thorough . . . study. Their primary concern is to examine 'the enduring question of the appropriateness of governmental coercion and censorship of private media' as it was raised by the relationship between the movie industry and the U.S. government."
Hollywood Goes to War: How Politics, Profits, and Propaganda Shaped World War II Movies
Hollywood Goes to War: How Politics, Profits and Propaganda Shaped World War II Movies,Clayton R. Koppes,Gregory D. Black,University of California Press,0520071611,Censorship,General,History,Motion Picture Industry,Motion pictures,Motion pictures and the war,Motion pictures in propaganda,Performing Arts,Politics/International Relations,United States,World War, 1939-1945,History / General,Propaganda
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